A People's Democratic Platform

The Nation ^ | 08/02/04 | many

[Cincinatus]

A finer collection of loony, nitwit ideas I have seldom encountered.

This is indeed the modern Democrat party.

[Trust but Verify]

This is the scariest thing I've read in a long time. than again, I haven't read the actual platform

[Trust but Verify]

This is the scariest thing I've read in a long time. Then again, I haven't read the actual platform

[BlueLancer]

"Those tax cuts have done nothing but harm America by creating an enormous deficit. By eliminating them we can pay for health insurance for every American--that's how expensive they are."

And by doing this, won't you still have an enormous deficit?

[Phantom Lord]

George McGovern George McGovern, a former US senator from South Dakota, was the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee.

Since we were promised a peace dividend once the cold war ended, since no country is now threatening us and since the terrorist threat is not a military one, the present $400 billion military budget should be cut in half, to be achieved with 5 percent annual reductions over the next ten years.

It is comments like this from democrats that need to be publicized. Such comments assure a John Kerry loss.

[SZonian]

I'm all out of tinfoil after reading this.

[BlueLancer]

The Democratic National Convention ...
...you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

(Apologies to Mos Eisley Spaceport)

[zarf]

Bakari Kitwana makes the best sense. I'd be willing to adapt his recommendations for the Republicans. Alas, the Republicans believe in this idiotic drug war as well.

[Texas_Jarhead]

hell if that won't scare you straight

[Texas_Jarhead]

RE: "By eliminating them we can pay for health insurance for every American..."

I wonder if illegals would be covered by his universal health insurance?

[Southack]

Gary Indiana
Gary Indiana's most recent novel, Do Everything in the Dark, has just been issued in paperback. He lives in New York and Los Angeles.

"Ratify the Kyoto Protocol and withdraw from NAFTA and the WTO. Replace the World Bank and the IMF with a single Islamic structure that doesn't charge interest. Offer tax credits for the purchase of small, fuel-efficient automobiles. Cut taxes for individuals and couples who decide not to reproduce. Make abortions available and free at shopping malls, along with blood- pressure and glucose-tolerance tests.

Cut the military budget in half to fund healthcare, childcare, education and job training. Cut the remaining half by another half to rebuild urban infrastructures and expand public transportation. Cut the remaining half in half and give it to the families of civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq."

Tell me again why the Democrats wouldn't let these views be espoused at their Convention?!

5 Full Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires

[Texas_Jarhead]

Stauds Terkel says, "Are we a life-affirming society or one that perversely courts death?"

I'm sure this person is pro-life, right?...

[45Auto]

I didn't see a single word about individual responsibility - just a lot of hot air about how government can solve everybody's problems. The one fly in the ointment, of course, is that none of these nitwits wants to pony up to pay for their extravagant, nonsensical "solutions" to nonexistent problems. Typical Marxist crap - "tax the corporations to pay for national health care." These people all need to be put into reeducation camps.

[Phantom Lord]

Are we a life-affirming society or one that perversely courts death?

Well, we know the RATs court death and the GOP are life-affirming.

Paramilitary policing as part of the war on drugs is concentrated in poor communities and results in high arrest rates, racial profiling and police brutality, as well as the devastation of thousands of families and neighborhoods.

I have heard this for years and thought it to be liberal whinning. But then I heard someone talk about the matter of the higher arrest rates and racial profiling and it made more sense than anything I have ever heard.

In the inner citys, slums, and poor neighborhoods drug activity is IN THE OPEN and ON THE STREET. With the limited resources available to LEOs, the obvious route they should take is to go after those who are out in the open and easy targets.

There is a large number of drug dealers and users in the suburbs and wealthy neighborhoods. But to catch them, transacting and using in quiet areas, behind closed doors and raising no suspicion they would have to use far more resources. How much more would it take to catch 1 guy with an ounce of weed on Beacon Hill than to take down 10 guys on the corner in Bed Sty?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Wernicke's aphasia - aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability to understand spoken or written words.

[William Martel]

This stuff is great! I really hope that the DNC will be dumb enough to run with this stuff. Each and every proposal shows the extent to which the Democratic Establishment is disconnected from the American people.

These people really are just a bunch of wackjob fringe kooks. Normally I'd avoid making a characterization such as that about a group of people, but every day they seem to simply confirm that designation.

[Phantom Lord]

And with more than 11,000 electoral jurisdictions designing their own ballots and voting systems, all of our votes are in danger.

So we need federal election law and federal election workers designing and dictating the ballot for Apex NC Water Commissioner? I think not.